Jim Jordan speech for Kevin McCarthy backfires

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Some House Republicans used Jordan's impassioned speech for McCarthy as a reason why the GOP should choose Jordan over McCarthy for speaker of the House.

On Tuesday, McCarthy suffered a rare defeat, not just once but twice as he failed to gain the necessary 218 votes required to be elected the speaker of the House. His failure in whipping his caucus into line marked the first time in a century that a speaker was not elected on a first ballot.

Ahead of a second ballot, Jordan—who voted in favor of McCarthy in the first vote—stood to nominate McCarthy, telling his colleagues McCarthy is"the right guy to lead us." Jordan told House Republicans in a floor speech that the differences between members of the GOP conference"pale in comparison" to the differences between Republicans andRepresentative Jim Jordan nominates House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy for speaker of the House of the 118th Congress during a speech in the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol on January 3 in Washington, D.C. Inset: McCarthy is pictured on January 3 in Washington, D.C.

"We owe it to them—the American people, the good people of this great country—to step forward to come together to get a speaker elected," Jordan said from the floor on Tuesday.who did not make a formal bid for the speakershipBut Jordan's efforts to whip votes for McCarthy not only failed to prevent his colleagues from rebuking McCarthy for a second time but also seemed to backfire on the congressman as he accidentally rallied those dissenters to vote for him instead.

In the second ballot, the same 19 House Republicans still voted against McCarthy. But this time around, they all voted for Jordan instead. Now, the matter over who will be the next speaker is headed to a third ballot.

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